Feedlot producers can feed distillers grains and glycerin to replace a portion of corn in feedlot diets without any negative effect on rumen pH, according to a feeding trial conducted at the University of Minnesota at St. Paul.

The study was born from the university's partnerships with the Minnesota Corn Growers Association and the Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, which funded the project, according to Devan Paulus Compart, research assistant at the University of Minnesota.

Compart said both organizations were interested in new uses for alternative feeds such as wet distillers grains with solubles (WDGS) and glycerin. Compart, along with Jeff ...